Infighting caused defeat in polls: NPCC

The Congress had to face a debacle in February elections in Nagaland due to internal differences among senior party leaders in the state, an NPCC leader has said.
Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee president S I Jamir and Congress Legislature Party leader Tokheho Yepthomi made the admissions during a meeting of NPCC with AICC leaders here last night.
In his address, Jamir said the biggest drawback was the disunity and in-fighting among senior party leaders.
In the past five years, the party had changed four presidents and three CLP leaders, he said, adding that no leader was given a chance to settle comfortably and run the affairs of the party or the CLP.

Besides, the inability to find an acceptable end to the ongoing peace talks with Naga underground cadres had greatly hampered the prospects of the Congress in Nagaland, he said.
CLP leader Tokheho echoed Jamir.